After 1,418-winners, Derek O'Connor has called time on his career as a jockey. I refuse to refer to him as an amateur as he was as good a rider as any of the top professionals who he has ridden alongside. I always wonder why the best amateurs stay am...

 I am prepared to stick my neck out and suggest all four of the horses that ran in The Rising Stars Novice Chase at Aintree yesterday will all win races this season. Will any of them win an Arkle or Brown Advisory at the Cheltenham Festival? I w...

I quite enjoy it when a horse is disregarded by television pundits, as with Rubaud yesterday, and then goes on to prove them the muppets that perhaps they are. Tom Scudamore and Mick Fitzgerald, as respected and talented as jockeys as they were, have...

No one seems concerned that the long and unbroken run of the Badger Beer Chase, I believe the longest running sponsored National Hunt race at present, has come to an end, and that in these tough financial days has anone asked if the Woodhouse family ...

I was surprised as anyone when it was announced that Godolphin had acquired Billy Loughnane as a retained rider. I thought it was inevitable that Godolphin would want Loughnane 'on their team' in the near future but for him to immediately become equa...

I am uncertain if Britain, Ireland and Europe have a race to match the Melbourne Cup. Obviously the Cheltenham Festival is unmatched anywhere in the world, as well as Royal Ascot. Yet the Melbourne Cup, though it may not stop a nation as it would bac...